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British Prince Harry revealed that his father, King Charles, is no longer speaking to him and cannot imagine bringing his family back to England after losing trial in his security case on Friday.
In an explosive interview with the BBC after the court’s ruling, Harry said he was “devastated” by the decision after sometimes he was visibly emotional, making it “impossible” to return to the UK with his wife Meghan and his two young children.
However, he said he “loves” to repair the rift with his family, but he broke security issues. The king “will not speak to me for this security,” he said.
The British government downgraded Harry’s safety in 2020 after he and Meghan resigned as senior royals. “When that decision happened, I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t really believe it,” he said. “I thought that one thing I could turn to with all the disagreements and all the confusion that was going on was for my family to keep me safe.”
Harry spoke to the BBC in California. There, since moving to the United States in 2020, he has lived with Meghan and her children, Prince Archie and Princess Lillivet.
While such interviews are not common in the royal family, Harry and his wife made headlines after talking to Oprah Winfrey in 2021. In the interview, the couple claimed that they had “concerns” from the royal family during pregnancy about how dark Archie’s skin would become in the fetus.
The incident that the Duke of Sussex lost on Friday was deeply personal to him. He had previously expressed how important it is for families to be safe when visiting the UK.
“The only thing I’ve been asking for throughout this process is safety,” Harry said in an interview Friday, calling the situation “stitching the good old facility.”
A Buckingham Palace spokesman told CNN on Friday that all of the issues Harry raised in the interview were “repeated repeatedly and closely by the court, and the same conclusions reached each opportunity.”
In a written statement released after Friday’s interview, Harry said he was disappointed by the court’s decision and personally tried to resolve the issue in 2020 and 2021 by offering to pay his police protection, but the offer was rejected by the UK government.
For the Duke, there was a sense that history did not want to repeat itself, and he frequently elicited comparisons between his wife’s treatment and what his mother, Diana, faced. The late Princess of Wales died in 1997 after suffering internal injuries caused by a high-speed car accident in Paris.
Harry also said in an interview with the BBC that it is now “impossible” to bring his family to his home country. “At this point, we can’t see the world bringing our wife and children back to England,” he said.
The Duke of Sussex also discussed the long-standing rift between him and the royal family, sharing that there was “a very large number of disagreements” between him and his family, but the circumstances surrounding his police protections were “a sticking point.”
“That’s all that remains,” he said. “Of course, some members of my family will never allow me to write a book. Of course they will never allow me to do much. But you know… I love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore.”
The publication of Harry’s book “Spare” in 2023 tores an old wound open to his family after he shared scathing and intimate details about his experience as a royal family.
Later that year, the Duke appeared temporarily at his father’s coral crown and sat with Prince Andrew in the third row of the service. Neither were royals who had worked and did not perform their duties during the ceremony.
On Friday, Harry said he wanted to compensate the King, who was diagnosed with private cancer last year despite their enthusiastic relationship.
“I don’t know how long my dad has been having,” he added. “He won’t talk to me for this security, but it’s good to reconcile.”
This story has been updated in development.
